A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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Related If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your fac... WILBUR SMITH I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... VICTORIA AVEYARD If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's... ALEX CHILTON It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it'... JACK LEMMON I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w... RAINBOW ROWELL It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp... CYNTHIA ERIVO If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what g... OLIVIA COOKE You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st... OCTAVIA BUTLER I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr... DAVID NICHOLLS I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what ... DAVID CASSIDY Everything for me starts very small and snowballs. So I rarely start with the grand idea and find a ... KHALED HOSSEINI I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country th... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm wi... HAMZA YUSUF If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it... GARRET DILLAHUNT I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble... ELEANOR CATTON What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is... JOHN CARPENTER Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, eve... WALTER GILBERT At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ... JULIA ORMOND I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's no... CHRIS STAPLETON My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v... COLMAN DOMINGO Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes w... JOSS WHEDON It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the ... MIKHAIL BULGAKOV I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even witho... WASHED OUT It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote... CHARLIE HUNTER If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And... GBENGA AKINNAGBE When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's a... AARON NEVILLE If there's intelligence behind an opinion, then I'm all for expressing it, but I would never... CHARLI XCX For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with ... BRUCE STERLING I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it&... BRYAN ADAMS It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having... MICHAEL MORPURGO It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making... ALICE OSWALD In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm say... ALBERTO MANGUEL I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficu... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge wit... RIAN JOHNSON It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... WENDY COPE Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, th... JULIANNE MOORE I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who thi... PARMINDER NAGRA I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d... UMBERTO ECO You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a... MAGGIE CAREY I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was ... ODED FEHR In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It'... KIRK CAMERON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Fusion fashion - that's what I'm inspired by, taking all these different cultures and then t... HANNAH SIMONE I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it... LAUREN DAIGLE It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long supe... GENE LUEN YANG I'm pretty restless in bed, so I can lie there for a couple of hours and be like, 'Hey, that... ANDERS HOLM With code, what it means is what it does. It doesn't express, not really. It's a very bounde... ELLEN ULLMAN I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action pie... MAHERSHALA ALI The moment you start being in love with what you're doing, and thinking it's beautiful or ri... MIUCCIA PRADA If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a ... ROGER DEAKINS Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly... JAMES TAYLOR It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whet... EDDIE HUANG My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in thea... ADAM DRIVER We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes... STERLING K. BROWN I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to ... GARRETT DILLAHUNT With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'... P. J. HARVEY I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck... KIP MOORE I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or s... ROBERT PINSKY I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it... DANIEL HANDLER Stardom is a crazy thought. If that's what my path is, then that's where I'm excited to ... KEHLANI I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writ... JENNIFER EGAN The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, &... FEFE DOBSON There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in arti... ALANIS MORISSETTE Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting li... JIM DALE I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ... JESS WALTER I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... ORHAN PAMUK There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like d... ERNEST HEMINGWAY You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket sci... RACHAEL RAY When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there... LUKE BRYAN I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer... DREW GODDARD Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in ... RACHAEL HARRIS Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good ... PHIL KEOGHAN I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER When I sit down to write a song, there is no filter. I'm not trying to write for anyone or anyth... JENNY LEWIS I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning. R. L. STINE I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - an... LADY GAGA I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or ... JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy... GARY VAYNERCHUK Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip t... CARL HIAASEN
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I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or... GEORGE HARRISON I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting o... HARRISON FORD Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The ... REX HARRISON A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not... JANE HARRISON Times change, and we change with them. WILLIAM HARRISON Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of th... EDWARD HARRISON Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. ELIZABETH HARRISON There REX HARRISON The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of ... EDWARD HARRISON Matter was like a faint precipitate suspended in a world of dense light. EDWARD HARRISON The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. HARRY HARRISON What is light without dark? Right without left? What is goodness without the option to be evil? HARRISON CHRISTIAN We have no commission from God to police the world. BENJAMIN HARRISON I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles w... GEORGE HARRISON I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. GEORGE HARRISON The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to accou... HARRISON CHRISTIAN You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. HARRISON FORD To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is ... JANE HARRISON Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. HARRISON FORD Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. HARRISON FORD The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. GEORGE HARRISON If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amo... GEORGE HARRISON